2012 Spartan Nation Football Profile: #24 RB LeVeon Bell
Expectation:Â All Big Ten RB
Height:  6’2â€
Weight:Â #235
2012 Eligibility: Junior
EXP:Â 2 Letters
Status:Â Starting RB
Strengths: Bell is a game changer. A butt kicker and a name taker. He is the real deal. Let’s go right to the UM game to show it. In the 1st quarter the Spartans had a 2nd and six at their own 32 with 3:19 on the clock.
The Wolverines were in a great set defense and had the play stopped, Bell put on his cape, leaped over the Wolverine and demonstrated the game changing ability of a single back. The play went for eight yards and a first down, but more importantly it kept the Spartans moving. It may not have been a 92 yard TD, but it was a textbook example of how one player can change a game.
Weakness: Let’s go to the OSU game. Facing a 1st and 10 in the 1st quarter, with 4:30 on the clock from his own 49 Bell was lined up in the I formation. The Buckeye D had Bell stopped; he had a chance to dive back to the line of scrimmage, but instead turned back to make a play. He was corralled and lost seven yards.
Bell is so athletic and so talented, that at times he can’t shut it down and realize that not all plays are highlights and go for 30 yards. He is so blessed athletically
that he can’t take no for an answer. He will fight, scratch, pull and never give up on a play. A super statement of his character, but it can hurt his team.
Final Analysis: Dr. King was famous for wanting people judged on the content of their character and NOT on the color of their skin. With Bell we can say that we wish people were judged on the content of their character and NOT the amount of recruiting ranking stars.
Bell was unheralded when he arrived. Many places took shots at Dantonio. How dare he take a RB so lowly looked at. We at Spartan Nation said of Bell at the time, “Stars don’t mean anything. Bell has the heart, will and want to that it takes to be great. He may not have the stars, but he has the heart and will do whatever it takes to be great.â€
He is a great back who will have the chance with another great season to leave early for the NFL draft. That said it doesn’t define Bell.  He is warm, he is kind, and is nothing short of being a super person and gentleman.
I love to watch him interact with his teammates. He is still a kid, having starred from day one that he arrived, but he is a young man whose future is limitless. Bell’s worst enemy is Bell. I don’t think even he realizes the depth of his talent, or his ability to turn leaders into followers and I am not talking football.
When you watch him run he devastates people. It looks like this big powerful young man is moving effortlessly. He makes the game look easy. It is the same thing with
life. He is comfortable in his own skin. Well raised, he lo oks you in the eye like a man, he is well rounded and a young man any parent can be proud of.
If he can truly grasp the talents he has been God given, OFF THE FOOTBALL FIELD, we will hear from and about him for decades. He could be a Doctor that cures cancer, an
engineer who designs the next great building, a Hall of Fame NFL RB or whatever he wants. Bell is the real deal. As a player and a person.
Sometimes I think he fails to see his potential as a leader. He has it. It would be unfair to call him a football player. He is better defined as a super young man that plays football.
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